Posted on 03/03/2003 7:39:40 AM PST by presidio9
I have received several e-mails about Dennis Miller spewing hatred on The Tonight Show a few days ago. From what I’m told, he expressed great contempt for the French and total disdain for the well-being of innocents in Iraq. I believe the letters because I have seen him express similar Jurassic views on other programs. We thought he had bottomed out when he became the sportscasting equivalent of William Shatner/lounge singer, but it now appears he won’t be happy until he gets a show on the Fox News Channel.
I used to write for Miller in 1992, when he had a syndicated talk show. During the program’s one season, Miller went from endorsing Jerry Brown to becoming a big Ross Perot supporter. A political impulse-buyer, his ideological cannon was never lashed very securely to the deck. Over the years, the cannon somehow became lodged on the starboard side of the vessel. Each time Miller receives a paycheck, he seems to take it to a bank further to the right of the last one. And now, more than a decade since I wrote my last joke for the man, I can only watch in stupefaction as this once hip and inside comic completes his transformation into a lout whose act sounds as if it were ghostwritten by George Jessel. Actually, that’s not fair ... to George Jessel.
Dennis Miller was always decent to me. He gave me a chance, and I appreciated it, but he has become so obstinately wrong of late that I am left with no choice but to comment.
His attempt to style himself as a "Hollywood rebel" by completely sucking up to the ultimate "suits," which is to say the ones in Washington, is self-aggrandizing and pitiful. But then, tough as he speaks, Miller never met a powerful and/or connected guest he didn’t suck up to. So it’s predictable that he would court the braying repressionists who have seized control of the White House. Now we must listen to Miller blather insufferably as he refers with devotion to George W. Bush with the ever-possessive term "my president." After all, W. must be good if he belongs to that self-styled Hollywood rebel Dennis Miller! Right? Miller is so egotistical that he thinks that by referring to Bush again and again as "my president," he somehow legitimizes W.’s odious path to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. He believes his verbal consecration will make us forget that the little bastard stole the White House. To do otherwise would be to risk having Dennis Miller label us "un-hip." Heaven forfend!
No longer the youthful and sassy anchor of SNL’s "Weekend Update" of all those years ago, Miller has become a national father figure. And what a lousy dad he is. Listening to his act is no longer something we look forward to; it is more like getting stuck in the back seat of your pop’s station wagon while he lectures you on "Americanism" through 30 miles of heavy traffic. In front of your friends.
But give Miller credit; he has accomplished something that almost no one before him has ever been able to do. He has actually become so vile that he is not even suitable company in Hollywood. He can now make a game-show host shudder in revulsion. This works well for the self-involved Miller. Why waste time considering the true horror and long-term ramifications of the violence he so blindly supports when we could instead be focusing on the assault of cold shoulders he has sustained on Rodeo Drive? Yeah, Dennis, enough of this massacre-of-innocents stuff, let’s talk about you.
As cocksure as Miller is in his new political alliance, he’d better watch himself — he could be headed toward a 21st-century version of Hitler’s "Night of the Long Knives." So long as church-state integrationist John Ashcroft is the attorney general, a purge of the potty-mouthed Miller is never a distant possibility.
He has carved a place for himself on the Rushmore of wrong-headedness, and there he will stay for years to come, a glowering, reactionary oaf for the ages. He’s ready for his close-up, Mr. Murdoch.
Visit Barry Crimmins's website at www.barrycrimmins.com.
Technically, MSNBC is only supposed to make their transcripts available for a week after broadcast; we had the same deal with FDCH when I was at ABCNEWS until ABC became so cheap they stopped offering transcripts even for a day. But it seems that whoever is responsible for formatting and posting MSNBC transcripts is so lazy that it only gets done every once in a while, and always with certain buttons and links missing.
Anyway, I've found that if you email or call them about a missing transcript (call Redmond, not Secaucus), they'll either email or call you back with the URL.
Nothing new there. They don't care about right or wrong. There is no morality behind their actions. They only care about winning. Go to Mr. Crimmins' website & send him an email. There is an address there somewhere. Ask him if he loves America. He may not respond, or respond, but refuse to answer the question. I guarantee he won't tell you "yes."
I just wish he'd re-think the pro-choice position, but he's new at this, and anybody who that scumbag Crimmins hates that much can't be all bad.
Me too.
But he'd better watch it: Barbara Bush is likely to slap the snot out of him.
Bastard indeed!
Barbara Bush would kick the what passes for manhood right off of this mushy gasbag wimp. He wants the world to change back to the days when he had no responsiblity, and he could bang doped-up airheads like his current wife, just because he had sufficiently kissed up with enough quasi-celebrities to become one himself. Eventually, they realized how creepy and hostilly defensive he was, and they stopped returning his calls. Now, he hasn't had a decent paying gig in years, and has to satisfy himself with the childish fantasy that he is answering some elusive vocation. But he never was, and never will be man enough to fight for it. To bad. A lot of people would enjoy seeing the results.
Funny, but to me Miller seems witty, clever, wise, insightful. Maybe Crimmins was watching a Dennis Miller wannabe or something.
ROFLMAO!!
You go, WaveThatFlag. (Great Screen Name btw.)
Incidently, my screen name is a personal reminder of a time when I was as liberal as the noxious Mr. Crimmins. It is the refrain from the Grateful Dead song "US Blues," and I hve used it as a screen name constantly elsewhere. I still love the music of the Grateful Dead, but I have matured to the point where I see them as a bunch of talented, confused hippies. Even if the ones that are alive are all 30 years older than myself.
This is a hate piece. Hollyweird guys are jealous of men who are attractive without having to pay for it or trade drugs for it. Bush is cool. Hollywood fashion pimps are not cool. There's not enough money in Beverly to change that fact. Dennis Miller was sooooooo right to dump the has been who wrote this hate piece.
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